Felicia Fredlund

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Picture of the Month — August 2015

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Tiger from Above - Kolmården August 2014
I see food.

One year ago almost to the date (aka August 2014), a friend and I visited Kolmården—a huge zoo in Sweden. Each animal species have large areas to move through, and the park have even larger areas where many different animal species live together. This trip with an overnighter at the hotel beside the park was my birthday present from my friend. I turned 25 years old in May 2014.

As part of our trip we included a tiger tour that took us as close to a tiger you can be without also being eaten by them. In the picture above you see the tiger on top of a metal bus (or something similar) where all windows have been exchanged for bars. The tiger is so interested in the inside contents because inside is half the guide group and the guides are throwing meat up to the tiger through the ceiling bars.

My friend and I were a part of the second half to visit the inside of the bus. I literally was less than a meter from tigers while inside that bus. We weren’t allowed to be close to the bars because the tigers could reach slightly inside. So below I treat you to a picture of a hungry tiger thinking of eating me. 🙂

Tiger from Below - Kolmården August 2014
Tiger waiting for food with only bars between us.

Picture of the Month — July 2015

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Brumma is a great hugger.

That stuffed animal above is my first possession. Her name is Brumma, and she has been with me since I was little. I got her from my parents. Whenever I feel sad about losing my mother at six years old, I hug Brumma. She makes me feel connected to my mother.

This picture was taken in October 2014.

Picture of the Month — June 2015

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I guess an explanation is in order?

I’m starting up a monthly post for my site. The first of every month I’ll post a picture I took. Sometimes it’ll be a picture I took that day or a few days before, other times it might be a picture taken years before. Now, on to the picture:

Historic Anchor Inn Lincoln City Oregon USA 2015
Did you get lucky at the Anchor Inn?

This picture is taken in the front yard of the Historic Anchor Inn in Lincoln City, Oregon, USA. Taken in late February, 2015, when I visited the inn for the first time.

The inn is a fantastically homy place that is shock full of items—pictures, surf boards, mirrors, tchotchkes, and all manner of other things. One of the items is displayed above. The owners are super friendly and takes good care of you (Hi, Kip and Kandi!). I stayed there for a month, and then another week this spring when I spent two months in the USA.

I already know I’ll be back this fall. Perhaps I’ll take another picture then! 😉

You Can’t Walk Your Rabbit Without a Leash is Published!

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One of my strangest titles (so far) have been released. Both the content and the title stands out from other things I write.

You Can’t Walk Your Rabbit Without a Leash is a humorous fairy tale. While I say fairy tale, I don’t mean children’s tale. This one is aimed at adults, although the content should be alright for teenagers too (at least in my opinion).

YouCantWalkYourRabbitWithoutALeash-ebook-cover-webHere’s the description:

In a kingdom where knights woo pretty ladies, and fantastical creatures tell riddles and demand tolls, the princess of the royal family disappears!

The king fears the worst and sends his knights to find the kidnapped princess. He sends them to the east, to the west, to the south, and to the north. Of Sir Lucas, the most skilled knight of them all, the king demands that he find the princess or not come back to the castle for one whole year.

Sir Lucas needs to find the princess or pine for his home and the king for a whole year.

I haven’t written anything like this since I finished this one. However, I recently got some ideas for another humor story, but don’t expect it anytime soon. It needs to percolate before I’ll be ready to tackle it. Plus I have other projects that need to come to fruition soon.

For buy links, check the book page.

PS. That gorgeous cover was done by Ravven.

Burning Bright is Published!

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The second story in the Sorceress Islands series is now released (ebook only). Burning Bright is a short story set six years after Heedless and follows Marii and Mikolas through more trouble.

The description is:

Magic only brings trouble.

When natural healer Marii sees fire in the sky, she knows trouble comes for her father, bridge guardian Mikolas. The bridge he guards leads to the island which welcomes mages, and someone no longer hides their magic.

Mikolas and Marii must work together to save the mage and the mage’s family, while keeping their own family from being exposed as traitors to the temple.

No matter what they do, someone will die.

For buy links, check out my page about Burning Bright.

Heedless is Published!

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I’m happy to be able to say that Heedless is now published. It is the short story that starts the Sorceress Islands series.

It was conceived over a year ago. I really enjoyed writing it. It is fantasy, which is the genre that has been my home in reading and writing, although I am spreading my wings nowadays into other genres.

Here’s the description of Heedless:

On a nice spring day, bridge guardian Mikolas relaxes with his daughter while on duty. No one wants to cross the magical bridge because anyone from the other side who crosses will be executed on the grounds of being a mage. That day a mage boy waddles onto the bridge before Mikolas can stop him.

Now he must convince the boy’s father to give up his child or they will all be executed.

You can find it in most ebook stores eventually. Right now it is live at Amazon, Kobo, Smashwords, and a couple of more places.

To find links go to the dedicated page for Heedless; I will update with more links there as it goes live in all places. However, just search for Heedless or Felicia Fredlund in your favorite store and you should find it. (At time of posting it is live at: Amazon, Scribd, Kobo, Inktera, and Smashwords.)

Contact me if you have any problems.

Enjoy!

PS. The beautiful cover is made by Ravven.